When a husband and wife serve on the same committee, is that a governance problem? Nepotism? It’s a question that comes up regularly in community […]
Every piece of music has a drummer setting the pace. It’s the same in meetings and it is not necessarily the chair. Who’s the drummer in your meetings?
It takes drastic change and a willingness to change to create effective meetings. But it can be done. Move some items to outside the meeting and efficiency can skyrocket.
Virtually every meeting can take less time than it does. There are simple strategies that shorten the meeting and make it better.
Leaders who see their role as to serve the meeting are always admired an respected. They run effective meetings which generate huge results
En bloc simply means “as a whole”. It’s a very effective technique to deal with a range of items (which have disagreement) as one motion or one decision.
The dangers of misinformation in meetings , determine if it is fact or fiction first
A senior executive sat across from me recently – impressive career, multiple board roles, significant responsibility – and made a remark I haven’t stopped thinking about.
“Some people,” she said quietly, “justify their salary by having meetings.”
It was said without malice. She wasn’t ranting. She was making an observation she’d reached after years of watching organisational behaviour from the inside. And the more I’ve thought about it, the more I believe she’s identified something genuinely important. Meetings are sometimes just part of the job.